tracasserie

French

Etymology

From tracasser (“to bother; to worry”) +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.ka.sʁi/

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Noun

tracasserie f (plural tracasseries)

1. (colloquial) hassle, annoyance
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 17, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Major Pendennis longed to be off, and have a little pheasant-shooting at Stillbrook, and get rid of all annoyances and tracasseries of the village.

2. harassment

Further reading

• “tracasserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• caresserait